Quotes About Engaged Learning

#1. Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

Salman Khurshid

#2. Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain ... your thoughts ... your ideas ... engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.

Wes Adamson

#3. There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

Neil Postman

#4. MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. The strike spread with the speed of telepathy.

H.W. Brands

#6. What we want ... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.

Howard Gardner

#7. Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.

Leah C. Fowler

#8. When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

Robin McKinley

#9. Well, are you going to motivate people to bring peace to war-torn nations, or are you going to motivate people to join a cult and drink the Kool-Aid?

Libba Bray

#10. The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

Gever Tulley

#11. In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.

Jay Parini

#12. Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Pele

#13. Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence.

R. Scott Bakker

#14. These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

Gore Vidal

#15. Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#16. You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Howard Gardner

#17. He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from being good-natured, and made him unwilling to forget grudges.

Warren Eyster